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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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emore than ten percent of all held or-ders. And such applications must befilled ahead of those from customerswho do not qualify for preferentialtreatment under the regulations. The manufacture and installationof hundreds of millions of dollarsworth of telephone plant to fill hun Western Electric Turns to Peace After V-J Day, the Western Elec-tric Company moved in record timefrom large-scale production for theArmy and Navy to large-scale pro-duction for the System telephonecompanies.* Western is now turning out tele- dreds of thousands of orders for phones at the highest rate in its his-telephone service is not an over-night tory: 14,000 a day process. The time factor in manycases is not weeks but months. Thats the situation the Bell Sys-tem is fighting today with everyweapon in its peacetime arsenal. It is now producing tlial centraloffice equipment at maxinuini pre-warcapacity—1,000,000 lines a vear— * See Western Electric Tackles The Peace-time Emergency, Magazine, Autumn, 1945.
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In many places there is a neck-and-neck. race between facilities and service. Here an operator is handling calls at a position for which the multiple is only partially completed, while installers are working on still another switchboard section 298 Bell Telephone Magazine \ WINTER This husiiHSS lifis lived and ijruivusuccessful find of f/ood repute by (jiv-ing service. It has </iven the public ivhat itivanted nhen it ivanted it. and doneit iLith efficiency and courtesy—andthen invented better thint/s and tauc/htthe public to icunt them and ask forthem. That is zvhat made this businesssomething more than just a business. It made it a good place to luork, agood life to live, something %vith alittle distinction. It did its best to serve the public. That paid off ivhen it Jias compara-tively easy to do. Ifell. noiv it is hard—ivhat aboutit. IVhat do zve dof Shall zee run the business for ourconvenience^ Shall we run it to meet some longdistance prove in rules? Shall Ue serve our en

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